This lame Economist article keeps on going around, although not mentioning "Han hipsters and artistic types" anymore in headline.

A truly vile attempt of smearing a rising XJ tourist industry, as it hurts ethnic minorities job opportunities and young entrepreneurs in Xinjiang.
Tourist, of course often inner Chinese tourists but in some areas also international visitors is a source of income for the locals. The simplest example is a "40 RMB. horse ride" that many Kazakh herders are providing as a tour attraction.
New Chinese tour companies emerging recently in XJ are helping to do the same as generally the deradicalisarion campaign does: to tackle deep gap in income btw. (especially total) ethnic minorities and population in other parts of China.
Western "advocates" and journalism are exhausting their means to portray XJ in "genocidal" and "totalitarian" light, and are making truly sad attempts to hold on to anything they can twist and spin to look like "culture eradication".
It's a similar bunch of lies, half-truths and nonsense that they were peddling some time ago about "forced marriages" in XJ.

I told that in a WeChat convo to my ethnic Mongol friend in Urumqi, who recently married his Uyghur girlfriend. We laughed. Better simply laught at it.

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7 Jan
First, learn to spell "Turkestan".

Second, the West has secularised and emancipated its women, even too much so - say, in Europe the birth rates are catastrophically low.

In the process of modernization women of Xinjiang, of course, will give less birth.
Say, in Finland Somali women migrants were having average ~7 kids per person in the nineties, when refugees from Somali started arriving. Now, it's ~4 kids per person.

It's only good for emancipation and health. Finland's quite proud of that.
It's typical fake western "justice" nonsense, twisted identity politics reasoning.

If China is emancipating Muslim women, it must be "racism" and "genocide", right?
Read 6 tweets
7 Jan
These tweets are always the same. Vibrant centre for community, sure. Also, it is exactly in religious circles and among locals who frequently traveled to other Central Asian countries where the extremism and radicalism has spread to the point terror acts would happen regularly.
Western journalists and human rights advocates are obsessed with portraying China as "North Korea", successfully omitting nuance about history of the region and downplaying the role radicalisation has played in the de-radicalisation that followed.
Basically, they just successfully apply to feelings and empathy and craft the false narrative of a "genocidal China", knowing that noone in the West knows anything about XUAR.
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7 Jan
A very typical convo btw two eastern European ppl, with a negative view on both Russia and a Mongol-Turkic domination.

Me, when I hear "Russia is more like a Golden Horde":

GOLDEN HORDE 😍 Image
I'd rather hang out with Tokhtamysh than the Romans. Image
Most Russians and Ukrainians I know who studied history of Russia properly know that early medieval Rus was heavily mixed with kipchak Turk, then very influenced by the Golden Hordes politics and approach to conquest. Most of them think it's turned RU more "barbaric".
Read 6 tweets
6 Jan
Banning apps war is just a part of a more multipolar world. It's expected. Russia is talking about possible bans on some western sites (I think it's unrealistic for now, though).

It's political, and regular ppl affected by it should simply learn to use VPN/APN or whatever.
Not saying it's convenient, it's not, just saying don't be naive: if we don't have one hegemon world, which is definitely good, we won't have one same even cyberspace.
Western internet has to decline in order for western info hegemony to decline.

Banning Chinese apps is a sign of that decline.
Read 4 tweets
5 Jan
I write such threads mostly as subjective, and opinionated data that is backed mostly by Russian language accounts, often from 19th century ethnographers and historians or in this case modern descriptive articles one can find on the Russian internet.
I'm curious if anybody disagrees with my opinions and will dispute facts and why. Not only history but today's events are looked at through the prism of western-centric, russia-centric, sino-centric etc. POV.
One of the reasons why the West finds it so easy to plant sinophobia these days as it has first planted western-centric mindset (very complicated thing) globally.
Read 4 tweets
5 Jan
Photo of the members of the 2nd East Turkestan Republic, most of whom died in a famous Il-12 plane crush by Irkutsk. The crush to this day theorized by some to a "operation by the russians".

ETR Mark II was pro-USSR and based in Yining/Khuldja. De facto Soviet client state. Image
Leader Ehmetjan Quasimi (russian: Quasimov) is on the picture above in black suit, from the left.

They died in a plane crush late August 1949 (plane flew too low and crushed into the mountain, reportedly), while delegation was flying to negotiate ETR issues with Beijing.
Among them, ethnicities:

Ili Uyghurs, Kazakh, Russian, Tatar, Dungan (Hui), Xibe.

Originally "anti-Han Chinese influence", basically anti-KMT rebellion. Image
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